Invoke is a Python (2.7 and 3.4+) task execution tool & library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful & clean feature set.

This VS Code extension lets you execute tasks directly from your editor.

Use the command palette (CMD + SHIFT + P) and type invoke. Once you call the extension, a list of all tasks available will be displayed. Select the one you want to run. If your task requires any argument you can specify them next.

This extension will make best effort to use the proper tasks.py file:

• If a file is open in the editor, the extension will look for a tasks.py file at the top level of the folder that file is in
• Otherwise the extension will use the first tasks.py file found at the top level of the folders in the Workspace.

Invoke needs to be installed on your system. If the invoke command is not available in your path you can use the user settings variable vsc-invoke.invoke.cmd to define the path where invoke lives. This is the path to the invoke command (including invoke itself) that a shell should know to execute. This alaso allows you to specify a different name for the invoke command if it is installed under a different name on your system (e.g. Invoke.py)

Initial release

Documentation improvements

Documentation improvements

Added debug info to display error when failing to load tasks

Added logic to try to discover a tasks.py file when there are multiple folders in the Workspace

Introduced used setting vsc-invoke.invoke.path to define path to invoke command if it's not available in your path

Rename vsc-invoke.invoke.path to vsc-invole.invoke.cmd to include the full path to invoke. Fixed a few gugs.

Requires invoke version 1.x or better (technically 0.23.0 or better will work) to leverage the new JSON output format for tasks list

Handles more complex tasks definition that use collections

Add support for tasks package/collection

Better support for Windows (handling of files path)

Better handling of collections